Navionics App

[Calmwtrs]

I installed the app today on my iPhone for a 4 day trip coming up. Subscription was going to cost $80! Is there a cheaper way?

 

[Corey_lax]

I don't think I've ever paid for the app on my phone....

 

[Whole in the Water]

That's $80 for 1 year.

 

[kaelc]

I don't think I've ever paid for the app on my phone....

Don't upgrade your phone. Big mistake, now it's $80, after years of not paying

 

[Corey_lax]

If you have cell service, you could still just go on the website for free rather than a paid app I guess.

 

[Huyfishin]

Don't upgrade your phone. Big mistake, now it's $80, after years of not paying

if you change your phone and redownload the app it cost 80??

 

[kaelc]

if you change your phone and redownload the app it cost 80??

Yes but, I had an old phone and the app was a legacy version I had either paid for once or never. When I reloaded everything onto my new iPhone the new version of the app was installed and the new version is $80 a year.

 

[Calmwtrs]

So you still have access to the maps if you don’t renew your subscription? Also, is there another app that anyone would recommend? I have a Helix 5, but not sure if the maps are accurate.

 

[Aces]

It’s worth 80 bucks for all the features.

 

[Earl Ledge]

I have been using Navionics on three devices: an iPhone, my home iPad and my boat iPad. A year or two ago I had a sub and it was possible to synch all the devices and have my saved information all the same across all devices. My strategy was to subscribes only once every few years, to update my personally added points of interest mostly. I don’t rely on it for long distance navigation, just local boating where I don’t plot out courses and checkpoints. A few months ago I got a new iPhone. The charts on the new iPhone have reverted to crude sketches and the ransom is I have to subscribe for $80 a year (or more, clearly) for the rest of my boating days. I simply don’t buy the theory that, “see we’ve added all this new stuff, so we’ll now charge ten times more than we charged you ten years ago”. Actually is about fifteen times more than my initial subscription years ago. Another thing: I’ve been using the Sonarcharts feature which redraws your contour lines, and to my great disappointment Navionics has dropped support for this feature.
Anyone have a good and less costly alternative to Navionics? Anyone using Sonarcharts? I was always hoping the Sonarcharts would mature and allow 1 meter or a half fathom gradients for us saltwater folk, but I don’t know if they ever went there.